Here’s a portrait of the very cool Austin Channing Brown, who I was able to meet and photograph at this year’s Alt Summit. I recommend her book I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness ..read more

Yesterday, on my birthday, I did what I’ve been doing on my birthday for at least ten years. I took as many self portraits as the age I turned. This year I’m 56, so I took 56 self portraits. It’s hard (for me) thinking up that many new pictures every time, so there are some repeated ideas from previous years. But there is something new. This year I wanted to ask strangers if they’d be in a picture. So, there’s some strangers in this year’s self portraits, and some familiar faces with friends. This might be my favorite year, yet. Every year, I wonder if this is the last year I’ll do this. I don ..read more

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still." - Dorothea Lange. I love the power a photograph can take on, and it’s ability to immortalize a moment from the past. Here’s Landon and Brinley, married now, but they weren’t just yet when these pictures were taken. Some day Landon and Brinley will have kids, and maybe those kids will look at these pictures, the beginning of their parents love story, and get a little insight into what their parents were like when they were younger. The images are nice to view, now, but just think of what they’ll mean in 50 years from ..read more

If you’re not already following Shaun Johnson on Instagram then that’s really your top priority today, but only if you like to laugh. @johnsonfiles We had a great time when he came to the studio to be photographed. And we laughed. Well, I did. Like crazy ..read more

Suzanne Pereira lives in NYC but was in town filing a movie. Luckily we found a time while she was in Utah when she could come to my studio in Provo to be photographed. Suzanne is a delight, just pleasant as can be, and easy to photograph. We had never met but it turns out, we know a handful of the same people. I do hope our paths cross again ..read more

I’ve always loved this quote from Peter London in his book “No More Secondhand Art”, he says, “It is not beauty we are after, but meaning. Big, deep, wide meaning.” That strikes a chord. While I sure appreciate aesthetically pleasing moments with family pictures, my primary aim is to capture authenticity and something that is true, and I value that over an idealized version that might not actually exist in real life. So, I look for genuine, unscripted connections that not only look amazing, but are real. And heartfelt. So, if you are looking for a family portrait that gets at the depth of your ..read more

Demi Tebow is rad. (Miss Universe 2017, for one thing). She’s cheerful, kind as can be, and a real pro. She was up for whatever we asked. She made the shoot feel like a real collaboration and gave it her all to get the best images we could. This shoot was for Mixhers, a company that is made up of some of the best people I’ve ever worked with. The founders are amazing, I love the company mission, and the folks they hire are just the sort of people you’d want to spend all day with ..read more

I’ve known about Kirby Heyborne for a long time and always secretly wanted to be his friend because he just seems like the coolest person around. Well, as it turns out as I am so often, I was correct in my assessment. He IS the coolest person around. Here’s a portrait I made of him when he came to the studio a while ago. Among all the other things Kirby is doing these days, he is the host on a BYUTV show called Making Good and if you want to feel like there is some goodness in the world, if you want to see something that will make you laugh and make you cry and make you feel good inside, then ..read more

The very kind and exceptional painter Pam Beach asked me if I wanted to collaborate with her on a portrait project and I said yes. I would have said yes no matter what her idea was, just so I could work on a project with Pam Beach. (https://www.pamelabeachart.com/) For this collaboration, we interviewed ten kids who were teenagers at the time of the Covid lockdown and asked them about their experience during all that. Then we made some art in a response to what we heard them say. I took pictures, Pam painted their portrait. Last week was the opening of the show and it will be up for another mo ..read more

Happy Mother’s Day to all who pay attention to such things. Here’s a teeny collection of mothers with their kids from recent portrait sessions ..read more